Centrifugal Pumps-Engineering Calculations

Includes action and advantages of centrifugal or turbine pumps, theory of the centrifugal pump, hydraulic losses during the passage of fluid through pump, manometric head, change of pressure, hydraulic efficiency of centrifugal pumps, bearings, disc friction, effect of angle at discharge on the efficiency of a centrifugal pump, details of centrifugal pump, axial thrust and its balancing, calculation and design of a single-stage pump, calculation and design of multi-stage pumps, types of pumps and testing.